As cinemas near you prepare to be boarded later this month by Johnny Depp swashing and buckling for the fourth time as Captain Jack Sparrow in the latest offering from the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' franchise, Highly Questionable offers you a quiz whose theme is the colour black. The reasoning for this is simple enough - we enjoyed setting the red themed quiz yesterday and were looking around for a vaguely topical platform to follow up in similar fashion with a different colour, when an advert for 'On Stranger Tides' (the title of the upcoming Pirates IV) caught our eye. With the Black Pearl being the name of Sparrow's ship, we recognised destiny when it was staring us in the face and pounced!
Colour Black Quiz Questions
1 Which singer recorded the multi Grammy award winning album 'Back To Black'?
2 Who is the author of 'Black Beauty'?
3 What is the points value attached to successfully potting the black ball in a game of snooker?
4 Which artist created the iconic 'Black Cat' Parisian poster of 1896 (pictured above) that is often mistakenly thought to be the work of Toulouse Lautrec?
5 In the card game blackjack, what is the maximum permissible score?
The answers to this quiz will be published along with the next Highly Questionable blog post.
Colour Red Quiz Answers
1 Warren Beatty was the male lead in the 1981 film 'Reds'.
2 Nine countries border onto the Red Sea.
3 Mick Hucknall was the lead singer in the British band Simply Red.
4 Delhi is the Indian city in which the Red Fort is located.
5 Boston is the US city where baseball team the Red Sox play their home games.
Colour Red Quiz Answers Trivia Extra
1 'Reds' didn't only star Warren Beatty, he also co-wrote it and won the 1981 Best Director Oscar for that aspect of his multi involvement in the film. In it, he portrayed American journalist John Reed who had chronicled and commented on events surrounding the Russian revolution in his book 'Ten Days That Shook The World'.
2 In alphabetical order the countries bordering on the Red Sea are Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan & Yemen.
3 British soul band Simply Red's frontman Nick Hucknall has in recent years followed his twenty five year music career with a range of food and drink ventures that have included his co-ownership with Johnny Depp of the Man Ray restaurant in Paris and the cultivation in Scilly of wine marketied under his Il Cantante label.
4 The Red Fort, in what is now Delhi, was the official home of Mughal emperors until the middle of the nineteenth century.
5 Fenway Park, home stadium of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, will celebrate its centenary in 2012.
Colour Red Quiz Answers Trivia Extra
1 'Reds' didn't only star Warren Beatty, he also co-wrote it and won the 1981 Best Director Oscar for that aspect of his multi involvement in the film. In it, he portrayed American journalist John Reed who had chronicled and commented on events surrounding the Russian revolution in his book 'Ten Days That Shook The World'.
2 In alphabetical order the countries bordering on the Red Sea are Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan & Yemen.
3 British soul band Simply Red's frontman Nick Hucknall has in recent years followed his twenty five year music career with a range of food and drink ventures that have included his co-ownership with Johnny Depp of the Man Ray restaurant in Paris and the cultivation in Scilly of wine marketied under his Il Cantante label.
4 The Red Fort, in what is now Delhi, was the official home of Mughal emperors until the middle of the nineteenth century.
5 Fenway Park, home stadium of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, will celebrate its centenary in 2012.
The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com
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